Trump holds rally in Macon, Georgia — his third rally of the day in as many states
Former President Donald Trump held his third rally of the day on Sunday, this time in Macon, Georgia, after stops in Pennsylvania and North Carolina earlier in the day.
“I love this state. I love Georgia. I love Georgia,” he told the crowd. “I’m thrilled to be back in this incredible place with thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots.”
“And we’re bringing this country back fast. We’re going to bring it back fast. I’d like to begin by asking you a very simple question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” he added.
At his rally in North Carolina, he appeared to mistakenly shout out Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick. And during his speech in Pennsylvania earlier Sunday, he said “shouldn’t have left” office after losing the 2020 election, described Democrats as “demonic” and said he “wouldn’t mind” if a gunman aiming at him also shot through the “the fake news.”
Trump and his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris are in a tie in Georgia with 46% each, according to the final New York Times/Siena College polls of this election cycle.
The Peach State took center stage in 2020, flipping blue for the first time in nearly 30 years. Georgia is now back in play after it looked to be lost to Democrats, with President Joe Biden leading the ticket. Suburban counties in and around the metro Atlanta area such as Cobb, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Fulton counties will still be ones to watch this time. All of them went for Biden in 2020.
Also speaking at the rally was Herschel Walker, a 2022 US Senate candidate in Georgia handpicked by Trump, who ran a troubled campaign and lost to his Democratic opponent, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, by nearly 3 percentage points in a runoff. The result helped give control of the Senate to Democrats.
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